Amazon has added Prime Reading to the list of benefits available to Amazon Prime members. That means that a Prime subscription gets you access to a rotating library of about a thousand eBooks, digital magazines, and comic books.

You can read any of the included titles on a Kindle eReader, Fire tablet, or by using the Kindle app for Android or iOS.

There was a time when Amazon Prime was just a program that let you pay an annual fee to get free 2-day shipping on select items. Now Prime members still get that feature… but also access to thousands of streaming movies and TV shows, streaming music, cloud photo storage, exclusive podcasts from Audible Channels, and more.

Like Amazon Prime Music, the new Prime Reading perk doesn’t give you access to an unlimited selection of content. There are some best-selling titles available and odds are that any avid reader will be able to find a few things to read among them. It’s a nice added benefits, considering it’s included in the price of a $99 per year Amazon Prime membership for no extra fee.

But it also feels like an effort to get you to pay extra for one of Amazon’s other subscription services, like Kindle Unlimited (which has a much larger selection of eBooks to choose from) or ComiXology Unlimited (for digital comics).

For example, Prime Reading currently lets you read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for free. Want to read the rest of the series? They’re available for $10 per month with a Kindle Unlimited subscription (or you can just buy them outright).

Click to flag and open «Comment Reporting» form. You can choose reporting category and send message to website administrator. Admins may or may not choose to remove the comment or block the author. And please don't worry, your report will be anonymous.

nice. i’d pay for prime just for the shipping, but all these other perks really sweeten the pot.

Click to flag and open «Comment Reporting» form. You can choose reporting category and send message to website administrator. Admins may or may not choose to remove the comment or block the author. And please don't worry, your report will be anonymous.

I admit I have used some of the little extras like video and whatnot, but it’s always in the back of my mind: if it were just 2 day shipping and nothing else, would I be paying $80? Less?

Click to flag and open «Comment Reporting» form. You can choose reporting category and send message to website administrator. Admins may or may not choose to remove the comment or block the author. And please don't worry, your report will be anonymous.

Is it just me, or is the shipping part of Prime been getting slower. In many cases two days is no longer two days. I had one recent Prime order where I ordered two items. The first came three days later, but that was a Monday, so I’ll give that a pass since I don’t really like Sunday delivery and I don’t remember the time I ordered. The second item came on the following Wednesday, and hadn’t even shipped on the Tuesday before!

Click to flag and open «Comment Reporting» form. You can choose reporting category and send message to website administrator. Admins may or may not choose to remove the comment or block the author. And please don't worry, your report will be anonymous.

Click to flag and open «Comment Reporting» form. You can choose reporting category and send message to website administrator. Admins may or may not choose to remove the comment or block the author. And please don't worry, your report will be anonymous.

I’ve had the opposite experience. I’ve found that with the addition of Sunday deliveries (which I have enjoyed a few times already), not to mention the options for one day or two hour delivery, things have been getting better. Orders Saturday afternoon arrive Monday. But maybe I just live in a well connected area, and I know there are a couple Amazon warehouses reasonably close to me.

Click to flag and open «Comment Reporting» form. You can choose reporting category and send message to website administrator. Admins may or may not choose to remove the comment or block the author. And please don't worry, your report will be anonymous.

They did open a new fulfillment center near me this summer. I wonder if that’s part of the problem–it being new? But most the problems are with things that ship from a way away.

Liliputing’s primary sources of revenue are advertising and affiliate links (if you click the “Shop” button at the top of the page and buy something on Amazon, for example, we’ll get a small commission).

But there are several ways you can support the site directly even if you’re using an ad blocker and hate online shopping.